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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 31 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/31

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Carriage and Saddle Horse Tax
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40 Horses at 10/ [£0.10.0] each is £20.0.0
4 Horses at 15/ [£0.15.0] each is £3.0.0
2 Horses at 17/6 [0.17.6] each is £1.15.0
5 Horses at 20/ [£1.0.0] each is £5.0.0
£29.15.0
10 per Cent per 31 George III £2.19.6
Addl. [Additional] Duty for 36 George III £29.15.0
Total £62.9.6

I Robert Aiken Surveyor aforsaid
hereby Certify that upon Careful Examination
of the foregoing Rates & Duties I find they
Amount to Sixty two pounds Nine Shillings
and Six pence Sterling And that (conform to
his receipt) I delivered to Mr Thomas McClelland Collector of said Duties an
Exact Duplicate of the Account which contained my Oath that Requisitions were left
or delivered And that the Rates & Duties charged in said Account were just & true
to the best of my skill knowledge and belief And no person known to me or
who ought to have been Charged
Robert Aiken

Survey
of the Rates and Duties on Carriage
and Saddle Horses within the Royal
Burgh of Air from 5th 1797
to 5th April 1798
By Robert Aiken

Surveyor Generals Copy
Compared & Compileated by RA [Robert Aiken]
Exd. Pr GS [Examined Per General Surveyor]
Copied
E326/9/31
No 5

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Horse tax - Volume 31 - Burghs (see 'More info' for burgh details), E326/9/31

This volume contains information on who paid horse tax in the Scottish burghs of Aberdeen, Annan, Anstruther Easter, Arbroath (Aberbrothock), Ayr, Banff, Brechin, Crail, Campbeltown, Cullen, Culross, Cupar, Dingwall, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dysart, Edinburgh, Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Glasgow, Haddington, Inverary, Inverkeithing, Inverness, Irvine, Jedburgh, Kilrenny, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, Kirkcudbright, Lanark, Lauder, Linlithgow, Lochmaben, Montrose, North Berwick, Peebles, Perth, Queensferry (South Queensferry), Renfrew, Rutherglen, St Andrews, Sanquhar, Selkirk, Stirling, Stranraer, Tain, Whithorn, and Wigtown, between the 5th of April 1797 until the 5th of April 1798.

Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)

The Scottish Exchequer, and subsequently the Court of Exchequer, were concerned with the accounting of collected taxes in Scotland. These taxes include the Carriage tax (1785-1798), Cart tax (1785-1798), Clock and watch tax (1797-1798), Dog tax (1797-1798), Farm horse tax (1797-1798), Servant tax (1777-1798), Hearth tax (1691-1695), Horse tax (1785-1798), Inhabited house tax (1778-1798), Land tax (1645-1831), Poll tax (1694-1698), Shop tax (1785-1789), Window tax (1748-1798). Following the Consolidating Acts (38 Geo. III cap. 40 and 41), the duties on windows, inhabited houses, male servants, carts, carriages and dogs were incorporated in Consolidated Schedules of Assessed Taxes (1798-1799).

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